What Causes Head Lice?
Reviewed: Dr. Gromatzky
10. Prevention
Head lice are very contagious and this helps to make it very difficult to prevent a transmission from happening. Symptoms also tend to not manifest right away and this means that the patient can be infecting others for days without even realizing it.
If you do wish to be careful, then you should try and avoid having clothing such as coats hanging up with other peoples’. Avoiding close contact can also help prevent the spread, but this can be very difficult to achieve where young children are concerned. Head lice are not considered to be a health risk anyway, so it is not usually necessary to be too precautions in preventing them.
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